Imprdvement in the manufacture of ice



- one point. .i 1 i q `The tube which carries off the water should terminate in avessel to be kept full of water,

NITMSTATES PATENT @Errea 1" 'rIIoiIAsIVJ, medita or Kansas cIrY, MIssoUeI.

il" uvifiuefaoveM'NT IN y MANUFACTUR'E F ICE.

i l i i Speeieationgfoiming part of Letters Patent No.fl.l2,409, dated March 7, 1871.

Be it knownlthatYI, THoMAs J. Eireann,u of

Kansas City, in the county of VVJackson and in i the `State'leflwissournxhave invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus and Process `forMakingIce; and do hereby declare `that the following isa fullyelear, and

i exactdescriptionthereof, reference being had v to the accompanying drawings, and to the lettersof reference `marked thereon, making a.

` part of this specification.

Thenature of my invention consists in the construction of an ice-house, and in a new pro- 1 cess of manufacturing ice, as will be herein- 1 after more fully set forth.

In order-*to enable others skilled in the art i to `which my invention appertains to make i andlusethe same, `I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the-annexed drawings,` which represent a i vertical section of myJiee-house.

My ice-house is made of non-conducting mafterial, `except theiioor. The `sidesA A are hollow, and the space between lilled with sawdust or sawdust and charcoal.

The `roof B may be set on; slides (half-round iron bars) a a,

l so that the one half may slide onto the other,

and so make the house open to cold air, which .i l descends. Wheels with hollow grooves, to run y on the iron bars an, will enable the halt' of the roof to be easily slided on the other.

i A projection on one of the sides of the roof, ora small second roof `supported from ends and `center of thebuilding, and extending two `feeton` each side of top of sliding roof, will exclude any rainand ventilation on top of ice.

VThereshould be a small dooron one end of the house, the bottom of which should be above the square `lof the building. l

This iste admit the hose conveying water. The floor C islmade of iron, made tight, and

1` `set on non-conducting-pins b b, which should .d cover as little "of the surface of the iloor as possible, and leave auflarger surface exposed `to thelrooxn underneath.` The licor should have sufficientfall `to carry off the water at i `or atleast suflicient water in it to cover the the air.f This vessel could overiiow into a i larger `vessel,vand the latter then be carried Ato `the outer wall.

The inner lining should be tight, fine ooring, tongued and grooved, and placed perpendicularly, so that the water or wastageA from the ice dur ing slimmer may run down between it and the ice to the iron iioor underneath.

There might be perforated iron pipes, or a wooden trough with holes in it, placed around the iron hoor and through the center, and conducting to the tube which carries off the waste water. Y

After the ice-house is filled with ice, the ice should be covered on top with fteen or twenty inches, or ltwo feet, of sawdust, which should be kept well tramped down on top all summer. As the ice wastes, the space between it and the wall should be kept tightly filled with sawdust. The ice-house should be placed over the room designated to be cooled, forming en tire or part of ceiling of such room, the size to be determined by the requirements of the business.

The `principal feature, however, which I claim as new, is: Conveying the water into the ice-house, and there freezing it.77

This can be done when the thermometer stands 320 or below. It should be done in one of two Ways. y

Either run in, say, an inch or two inches of water on the floor, covering the entire iioor this depth; then, having thereof or doors open,` wait till this is frozen into solid ice then run in an inch or two Inches more water on top of this ice; wait till it is frozen solid ice; then add more water, and so on until the house is filled to square with one solid block of ice.

` Another way is to attach to the end of hose conveying the water a nozzle with holes in it similar to a can for watering flowers. This will make the water fall in a spray, and the workman can direct it wherever required on the surface, taking care to let it fall only as fast as the ice has been perfectly formed of the water he threw on it previously. With to the air; and the ice can be made at a small cost once the house is there.

The house would be required, in any event, so that its cost should not be added to the way cost of the ice. The cost of ice in this would be merely conveying the water into the house, and one man to attend to it running in the right place.

A thousand tons of ice could thus be made in a few days of freezing weather at a cost of ve cents per ton or less.

placed higher than the ice-house, and so run in without any cost, once having the water, which is generally plenty round houses or 4manufactories where ice would be made in this way. Or, if the water be lower than the ice-house, it could be raised by a force-pump or carried from any point by pumps.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

An ice-house constructed, as described, of double sides AA, sliding roof B, and iron bottom or door C, for freezing ice, substantially as herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 26th day of December, 1870.

. THOMAS J. BIGGER.

Witnesses: J. J. DAVENPORT,

The water could be procured from cisterns DAVID Low. 

